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ArticleNature communications2025

Thermally programmed one-pot CRISPR assay for on-site pandemic surveillance.

Zhen Huang, Yajuan Dong, Yang Yang, Xuchun Han, Fuxiang Wang, Christopher J Lyon, Shuai Ding, Yun Peng, Ganggang Zhang, Christina Hu and 7 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Zhen Huang *Center for Cellular and Molecular Diagnostics, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3990-7350
Yajuan Dong *Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center & Shanghai Institute of Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Yang Yang *Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6489-4459
Xuchun Han *Wuxi Tolo Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Wuxi, China.
Fuxiang WangShenzhen Third People's Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
Christopher J LyonCenter for Cellular and Molecular Diagnostics, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Shuai DingWuxi Tolo Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Wuxi, China.
Yun PengShenzhen Third People's Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
Ganggang ZhangInstitute of Microbiology, Jiangxi Academy of Sciences, Nanchang, China.
Christina HuCenter for Cellular and Molecular Diagnostics, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Huan HuangNational Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen, China.
Liu YangShenzhen Third People's Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
Guoping ZhaoKey Laboratory of Systems Health Science of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Science, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7621-6620
Xiao-Yong FanShanghai Public Health Clinical Center & Shanghai Institute of Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. xyfan008@fudan.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6654-3559
Shuihua LuNational Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen, China. lushuihua66@126.com.
Tony HuCenter for Cellular and Molecular Diagnostics, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA. tonyhu@tulane.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7255-5409
Jin WangWuxi Tolo Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Wuxi, China. wangjin@tolobio.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4008-9284

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 31922046
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ongoing monkeypox virus outbreak highlights the need for rapid and accurate diagnostics to enhance epidemic control. CRISPR-based assays hold promise, but clinical translation is hindered by high complexity and low throughput. Here, we describe a thermally regulated asynchronous CRISPR-enhanced (TRACE) assay that rapidly and sensitively detects multiple DNA targets in a streamlined, one-pot format. TRACE exhibits a 2.5 copies/test limit of detection - 40 times lower than a canonical one-pot CRISPR. When applied to clinical samples, it achieves 99.5% accuracy across diverse sample types, and can detect MPXV within 11 minutes. Point-of-care TRACE assays meet ASSURED criteria and deliver comparable performance to qPCR, with a fivefold reduced report time, in outpatient settings. Moreover, TRACE enables simultaneous detection of pathogen and host genes at comparable sensitivity to address a critical limitation of current CRISPR assays, which lack internal controls. TRACE thus enables rapid, on-site surveillance to facilitate bench-to-bedside translation of CRISPR diagnostics.

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Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsCRISPR-Cas SystemsPandemicsHumansPoint-of-Care SystemsSensitivity and SpecificityTemperature

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